This is Mantra. She's a powerful superhero with magic powers and a magic sword. She's the soul of a man reincarnated unwillingly in the body of a woman. She's now owned by Marvel and stuck in limbo forever because of contract reasons.
Say something nice about her.
>Mantra omnibus never
Oliver Diaz
is it any good?
Nolan Perez
Ha ha ha! I get it!
MAN-tra!
Wyatt Kelly
You can't spell Mantra without man.
They actually used that line in the comic.
Thomas Reyes
>MANtra WOW
Samuel Gomez
thats brilliant
Aaron Adams
Unfortunately for the /d/eviants out there she's physically a woman. She just has the soul of a man.
Josiah Johnson
She would be better with a dick
Noah Hall
Not a great time for her to return. They'd make her all about the lgbt scene
Oliver Harris
They'd also make her unsexy.
Cooper Lewis
The fact that she dresses like a stripper at a ren fair is an important plot point.
Isaac Sullivan
It's okay in a slightly naff 90s body swap comedy kind of way. Some decent art and they manage to wrap up the main story arc before Marvel drove a wrecking ball through the whole Ultraverse
Nolan Cox
But it's a cool, well-designed costume.
The fact it's also skimpy doesn't detract from that.
Jonathan Jackson
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Liam Campbell
To be fair the entire line of Malibu comics characters were progressive and edgy and testosterone fuelled at same time. One could call them the original extreme comics. They targeted hormone fueled teenagers better than Marvel ever did.
Lucas Price
Sure, I'm not knocking it just pointing out that there's a reason in universe for it's highly sexualised design. I also like the second, slightly less extreme, costume.
Joseph Cox
>unfortunately
m8 thats even better
Everyone knows the first thing a man wants when he gets turned into a woman is like, 60 dicks
Whats the in universe reason?
Easton Morgan
>I also like the second, slightly less extreme, costume.
And Lukasz designed the backup costume himself. So he just confessed he liked looking sexy
Juan Carter
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Owen Davis
>Whats the in universe reason? The short version is the three elements of the costume, the mask, the cloak and the armour, were designed for three powerful sorceresses to enhance their power. But they were also desinged by a man to show off how sexy the three women are and to underline how they are his subordinates. Tldr: pimp daddy wizard wanted his bitches to look fine
Matthew Adams
>Whats the in universe reason?
The outfit is the source of a lot of her powers, so she needs to wear it.
James Sullivan
Thats the problem, If Marvel buys IP, it mostly ends up in limbo, becaue they dont know what to do with it. Be it the Ultraverse, where they tried to crossover things. Or Crossgen, where they just put a similar ip name on something different. It will always contradict what the i was loved for.
Julian Foster
Marvel doesn't want to bring back the Ultraverse because they are cheap jews
Gavin Hall
interesting battle style there starfox
Samuel Evans
The way I heard it Malibu had unusually generous contracts with their creators. If Marvel want to use any of the Ultraverse characters they not only have to pay a sizable cut to the creators they also have to give them some editorial control. So that's never going to happen
Samuel Hill
So at one point in time there wa a sorceress that was wearing nothing but a mask?
Owen Myers
I liked it, iirc she eventually gets comfortable being a woman.
Lincoln Hill
They all had basically the same fantasy swimwear outfit but one also had a mask or a cape etc.
Ethan Smith
Well it could be worse, one of his buddies ends up as dog
Cameron Rogers
Why doesn't she wear regular clothes under the armor if she's so worried about looking like a slut? There's no rule that she can't wear pants underneath is there? God comics logic is so retarded. Just have the character admit they like dressing like a whore and don't try to come up with "reasons" for it.
William Stewart
She was created by Mike W. Barr, an immensely talented and terribly underrated writer.
Adrian Rodriguez
Magic, obviously.
Joseph Fisher
So what, the costume magics the rest of her clothes away?
Kevin Morgan
The breast plate (ha ha) looks fine but she is pretty much naked apart from it and the boots.
Aiden Campbell
Yes. I assume it also has to be in contact with her skin to boost her power like it's supposed to
Blake Campbell
I'm very curious what the armor looks like from the back. It doesn't look like it could connect in any logical way.
Bentley Sullivan
Yeah she's pretty much naked from the back
Joseph Sullivan
That must be enormously uncomfortable. Jesus.
Alexander Cruz
This was the 90s so practicality wasn't a consideration
Carter Murphy
Mantra (like all of Malibu really) would have been better served if it weren't such a total 90's time capsule. Though, as said earlier, Barr is really underrated.
Sebastian Jenkins
That time she was pregnant really activated my fetishes.
Anthony Butler
Mantra's interesting in that it's the redemption of an asshole. Lukasz has been hopping bodies for ages, stealing lives and destroying families in the name of his master's war. Then he gets stuck as Eden Blake and his situation is vulnerable enough that he's forced to actually live this person's life and face the fallout of his serial bodyjacking.
Grayson Evans
This is my fetish
Gavin Price
It's almost a reverse corruption story.
Self-centered jerk knight becomes responsible mother and stand-up superheroine.
Also amusing how Prime crushed badly on her.
Jason Price
Can someone please storytime comics with her.
Elijah Johnson
Why is she such a slut?
Xavier Cruz
Because Lukasz is a centuries old chauvinist who thinks women are only good for sex and subconsciously applies this attitude to himself.
Luis Young
Sure
Easton Collins
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Caleb Gomez
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Camden Davis
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Adam Garcia
So he thinks women are sluts and then makes himself one?
James Nelson
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Hudson Phillips
Not Marvels fault the two companies had contracts for creators to get a huge pay cut whenever they are in use. Its not like DC with their IP like Fawcett or Charlton which had work for hire contract.
If you want a more modern DC equivalent look at Wildstorm and Milestone. See which characters aren't being used right now because DC has to pay the creators whenever they come on paper.
Both are cheap jews.
Charles Sanchez
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Daniel Lee
Not really
Luis Evans
>Or Crossgen, where they just put a similar ip name on something different.
>Waid ruined his own Crossgen book under Marvel.
Dumping Ruse into actual Victorian England was such a huge fucking mistake.
Jackson Long
Crossgen was the fucking best Marvel had no chance of making comics as tasteful and mature as those.
Grayson Smith
I also read that Marvel was more interested in Malibu's computer colouring team than their ips
Aaron Mitchell
It was great. Especially once they stopped focusing on the Sigil stuff so much.
Too bad it was run by honest-to-god morons.
Nathan Hughes
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Sebastian Lopez
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Nathaniel Martin
Talking of ridiculous 90s costumes...
Aaron Smith
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Wyatt Jones
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Jacob Richardson
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Jason Foster
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Eli Jackson
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Wyatt Butler
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Carson Rivera
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Andrew Smith
Yeah, it could have had a much longer life. They had a lot of talented writers who believed in the company and were turning out great work. Then it all went tits up in the worst way possible. I think the death of Crossgen was the end of the shared universe for indie publishers. They should have been the one to make it. But corporate greed fucked all the creators over and creator-owned became the only thing anyone wanted to touch ever again.
Kayden Morales
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Alexander Brooks
Ouch that'll leave a mark
Carson Rogers
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Elijah Baker
tfw you are having a shitty day then you turn into a naked chick
Colton Lee
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Camden Phillips
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Dominic White
Been a girl five minutes and already using her looks to get her way, must be in the blood
Ethan Richardson
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Samuel Price
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Jose Morgan
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Gabriel Diaz
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Ryder Martin
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Cooper Clark
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Mason Bennett
End of issue 1
Gavin Reyes
If you found out someone you'd been fighting for 1500 years were a woman now, do you think you'd try to fuck them? Not even rape, just trying to get them in bed?
Aaron Bennett
I think that actually happens later. She gets knocked out and the villian tries to force her to marry him.
Blake Edwards
>tfw you are having a shitty day then you turn into a naked chick
A 10/10 naked chick too. Like jesus, Eden is just some housewife but has a body like a supermodel
Evan Robinson
I guess if you've got to be a milf may as well be a hot one
Mason Davis
Even if she would be brought back she would look nothing like this. A sexy costume? Exposed legs and cleavage? Big boobs? At current Marvel? Hah. So her being in limbo forever is a fucking blessing.
At least 90s Marvel dared to let women look hot.
Jason Sanchez
Sounds like my wife.
Cameron Jones
awful 90s shit
fucking terrible costume
Joshua Diaz
Nah
Jack Watson
yah
Gabriel Lee
Yeah nah
Austin Martinez
Remember when the Ultraverse briefly merged with the Marvelverse and instead of becoming the Thing Ben Grimm became Mantra?